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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…the golden age of animation – work because we know they’re anthropomorphized characters based on real inanimate objects, just like Woody and Buzz in Toy Story or, to use a… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…finally saw its official US release on DVD. Yabba-dabba-doo! Some of the additional highlights of the year included more classic animation from the independent outfit Thunderbean Animation, who released Return… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling
…a line of box office disappointments for DreamWorks, it led to the closing of Pacific Data Images. Penguins of Madagascar would gross a worldwide tally of $373 million against a… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…of The Woody Woodpecker Show, featuring often print-worn cartoons, television dupes filled with timing cuts. One breath of fresh air was the inclusion of host Walter Lantz’ onscreen introductions and… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…hosted by Adam Savage of Mythbusters, another favorite show of mine. Cast of The Big Bang Theory; Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Ben: By Friday I for one had begun to slip… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…Oliver & Company began the new golden age of the Disney studios with The Little Mermaid. MH: Yes. I was co-supervisor of Ariel. I was one of the earlier animators… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…The basics of animation are explained in Pixar’s Zoetrope (1:58), before going on to display one of the most elaborate and truly impressive examples of this early animation device in… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…differenciates stop frame animation from the other forms of animation like, say, hand drawn animation? SM: I think stop-frame animation still has that hand-made tactile quality to it. People can… |
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Disney releases animation app
…of animated scenes to reveal work-in-progress animation steps and visual effects layers. • Interactive Workshops: Hands-on interactives allow fans to experiment with iPad versions of authentic Disney animation technologies and… |
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Annie’s award best of 2013 animation
…Pacific Rim – Industrial Light & Magic Character Animation in an Animated Television/Broadcast Production Kureha Yokoo – Toy Story OF TERROR! – Pixar Animation Studios Character Animation in an Animated… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…even heard of LaserDiscs; but to many of us, there is no small amount of sentimentality about them. And, though many collectors got rid of their collections since DVD arrived… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…GoldenEye, US Marshals, Entrapment and The Phantom Of The Opera. The 35th anniversary of Watership Down, director Martin Rosen’s 1978 animated adaptation of Richard Adams’ novel that marked Terry’s switch… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…slotted into the kind of programming that filled the Disney Afternoons. The show proved so popular that it brought about a resurgence of Pooh animated offerings, including a series of… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…the aplomb of Tangled Ever After, with delicate usage of sound effects often as intricate as the animation itself. Final Cut: Rumors of the Studio’s shorts coming to disc have… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…producing a lot of animated movies as well. So actually, there are a lot of opportunities. The tough part of that is, to get into any of the big studios,… |
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A Conversation With Andreas Deja
…didn’t have any experience, so all of us were sort of floundering with that, and it shows in the film, of course. Toward the end of the film I didn’t… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…experience, so all of us were sort of floundering with that, and it shows in the film, of course. Toward the end of the film I didn’t feel so helpless… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…Officer of Walt Disney Feature Animation, which he renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios. Lasseter, as well as Apple Inc. CEO and former Pixar chief Steve Jobs, had made no secret… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…was entertaining and all that, but it ended up, first of all, kind of telegraphing what we wanted to be kind of a surprise at the end of act two…. |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…quite gelling to get fully off the ground. The US box-office failure of Aardman Animation’s collaborations with DreamWorks might have had something to do with Gnomeo’s drawn-out creation of the… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…Saturday morning cartoons, there were pioneers of television animation who dared to produce the once-too costly cartoons for afternoon and prime time viewing. Before that of course, there were the… |
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Focal Press educates on animation with recent projects
…is also the author of six other books on marketing and the use of Flash. Animation: The Mechanics of Motion A Volume in the Focal Press Visual Effects and Animation… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…and so their first offering in feature animation was the live-action combo Space Jam, in 1996, which had a good third of its animation completed at Warners’ UK Studio in… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…characters: Marvin The Martian, the Tasmanian Devil and Ralph Phillips, and often show the pre-restored state of some of the films. From the fifth volume of the original Golden Collection… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…on 54% of the ballots. In fourth place with a score of 12 was The Tale Of Princess Kaguya, which appeared on 19% of all ballots. The Book Of Life… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…follows those lines.” Links: IMDb Page Interview with fps Magazine Interview with Animation Trip Interview with Animation World Magazine Interview with Animation World Magazine #2 Interview with IGN Interview with… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…politics, was given a rough ride over there, and he was always kind of pushed aside in favor of some of the other Nine Old Men, but he was really… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…All the way through animation history, there were a great deal of animators and animation artists who had a strong affinity with music, beginning with Walt Disney himself, and animation… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…with their own offering. Time will tell which of these entries will stick, but as a result of this wave, CG animation will certainly lose its novelty. The appeal of… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…animation? HS: Directing stop motion animation is actually a sort of combination of directing live action and ‘regular’ animation. We have real sets, real lights, real cameras. There is a… |
